Yoshinaga-san chi no Gargoyle Blog Posts

As an Asian-American, Orientalism has been a difficult topic to grapple with. Because the word has been used in many different ways in recent internet discourse, inadvertently resulting in vague [...]
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It’s not unusual to have a stone ornament in the front garden, but in the case of the Yoshinaga family, theirs is a little different- it can actually come alive! Known as Gargoyle, this intelligent gatekeeper was created by alchemy, and his duty is to keep the Yoshinaga family safe from all the other weird [...]
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The Musketeers make it all the way to Cologne/Koln/wherever before getting attacked by the Psalm of the Week - here we have a girl named Lorenzia who summons demonic doggies to devour our debonair do-gooders whilst the Count of Cagliostro ferries her around in a carriage (it’s not quite Miyazaki…) and communicates with Saint-Germain by [...]
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I’m not sure whether I’m going to use this section often, but it’s perfect if I want to say something about certain series outside of the monthly summaries. Perhaps I’ll use this more often in the future f I want to say something about series I’m not blogging.
Himawari
I remember that I classified this anime [...]
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While riding home on the train, Kazumi is asked by a friend if he'd participate in the drama club. They're lacking actresses ;) Kazumi's not exactly interested, but his friend's younger sister, Momo, asks him to reconsider. It would seem Momo feels something for Kazumi... Kazumi and Momo get off the train together, with Kazumi heading home and Momo heading to go shopping for something.
It's just about Christmas, and the shopping arcade is decorated appropriately. Osiris is in the festivities as well and is as popular as ever, though still with that not exactly great attitude. Futaba stops by Iyo's shop, where she's once again made into a guinea pig for another of Iyo's crazy experiments. As a reward, Iyo gives her a hat... Futaba says she'd rather like food than something like that. And then she says that she came there right from school since she was worried about Gar-kun... Huh, this isn't the Futaba we know. Yup, it's that hat -- it makes the person wearing it say what they're thinking. Gar-kun gets a drop kick for saying that he's happy that Futaba was thinking of him ;)
Momo then stops by and asks Iyo about making a doll. Iyo pulls out a make your own homonculus set. No thank you (^^;;) Momo ends up getting some of the yarn Iyo had used to make that hat Futaba was wearing. She stays up rather late working on the doll so she's pretty tired the next day when she rides the train together with Kazumi. She stills wants Kazumi to be in the drama club... When Kazumi gets home, walking through the snow, there's a phone call for him -- it's Momo. Futaba reads a magazine called "Fighter's Friend" (some article about beautiful muscles in it) as Kazumi talks to Momo on the phone. Momo wants to meet him the next day...
Momo's rather nervous as she goes to meet Kazumi, and ends up dropping something. She meets him at a shrine -- apparently she asked him to show her around since the city is the model for the setting of a play they're going to do. But she doesn't care about that now -- she goes to give Kazumi his present, but it's not in her bag...
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